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Praxis Series

Romantic Circles
Praxis (ISSN: 1528-8129) is a series of peer-reviewed critical volumes devoted to the field of Romanticism and its theoretical underpinnings. Closer in form to a scholarly book of essays than a critical journal, each volume in Romantic Circles Praxis Series (RCPS) explores a particular subject, figure, or theoretical approach, such as the gothic, contemporary culture, discourses of empire, and many others.

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This volume offers a series
of essays in which contributors meditate on how the
concept of education intersects with sublime theory
and Romantic aesthetics more generally. Broadly
speaking, this volume produces a set of revisionary
readings rooted in the critical philosophy of
Immanuel Kant and its place in our ongoing
understanding of Romantic aesthetics and sublime
theory. An underlying inspiration of this volume is
the pedagogical theory of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,
who has thought widely about humanities-based
training using Romantic-era texts as principal
theoretical and literary tools, formative among them
the aesthetic philosophy of Kant. This volume is
edited and introduced by J. Jennifer
Jones, with essays by Christopher
Braider, Frances
Ferguson, Paul
Hamilton, Anne C.
McCarthy, Forest Pyle,
Deborah
Elise White, and an afterword by Ian
Balfour.

This volume offers a series
of shifting perspectives on the emergence of
psychoanalysis and a psychoanalytical consciousness
in early and later British and German Romantic
poetry, fiction, philosophy, and science. Rather than
read psychoanalysis as one of Romanticism's
inevitable outcomes, this volume reads for what
remains unthought between Romantic thought and
contemporary theory and criticism about Romanticism
and psychoanalysis. The papers herein map versions of
a psychoanalysis avant la lettre, but more
crucially these essays imagine how psychoanalysis
before Freud thinks itself differently, as well as
anticipating and staging its later concerns,
theorizations, and institutionalizations. Together
they offer what might be called the profoundly
psychosomatic matrix within which the specters of
modern subjectivity materialize themselves. This
volume is edited and introduced by Joel
Faflak, with essays byMatt
ffytche, Ildiko
Csengei, Julie
Carlson, Mary
Jacobus, Ross
Woodman, and Tilottama
Rajan.

This volume begins to
unpack the relationships among the three terms of its
title. Despite its air of neutrality,
"secularism" is increasingly understood to
have its own interests, particularly when it comes to
defining and managing the "religious." And,
thanks to its constitutive relationship to modernity,
romanticism is invested in secularism, not least in
those moments typically coded as
"spiritual" or "religious."
Cosmopolitanism, too, bears a vexed relationship to a
period typically associated with nationalism.
Finally, secularism and cosmopolitanism are
themselves related in surprising ways, both
historically and conceptually. Do they pursue the
same project? Do they diverge? How and when? And how
does romantic writing figure such alignments? These
are the questions motivating the three essays in this
volume. This volume is edited and introduced
by Colin
Jager, with essays byMark
Canuel, Colin Jager,
Paul
Hamilton, and an afterword byBruce
Robbins.

This volume contextualizes
work by and work about Joanna Baillie with respect to
revisionist thinking about utopianism. Since
utopianism has become a positively valued concept
within sociological, legal, and other fields, its
implications for an understanding of Baillie's
approach to social change/social problems, as well as
for an understanding of scholarship recovering
Baillie for contemporary purposes, deserve to be
explored. This volume is edited and
introduced by Regina
Hewitt, with essays byThomas
McLean, Robert C.
Hale, William
D. Brewer, Marjean D.
Purinton, and Regina
Hewitt.

This volume addresses a
perceived opposition between philosophy and critical
theory on the one hand, and culture or cultural
studies on the other. It seeks to revalidate critical
work that develops a philosophy of culture and a
culturally historical philosophy. This volume is
edited and introduced by Rei
Terada, with essays byManu
Chander, Ted
Underwood, Thomas Pfau, J. Hillis Miller,
and Daniel
Tiffany.

This forum attends to the sounding
sense of Romantic poetry, both thematically (a
poetics of sound) and sensually/phonically (the
poetry of sound and the sound of poetry). This volume
is edited and introduced by Susan J. Wolfson,
with essays bySusan J.
Wolfson, James
Chandler, Garrett Stewart,
and Adam
Potkay.

This volume suggests the myriad ways in which the
surprisingly neglected (and critically undigested)
Romantic culture of gastronomy influenced artistic
production of nineteenth-century Britain and
France-at the same time as it raised new
philosophical challenges. Edited and
introduction byDenise
Gigante, this volume includes essays
byCarolyn
Korsmeyer, Joshua
Wilner, and Michael
Garval.

This volume addresses the question of
"Romanticism and the Insistence of the
Aesthetic" by considering Romantic versions of
the relationship between the aesthetic and power,
whether as a form of violence or a force of
possibility. Edited by Forest Pyle, with
essays by Ian Balfour,
David
Ferris, Karen Swann and a
response by Marc
Redfield.

A look at book-culture and bibliomania in early
19th-century England, as seen through emerging genres
such as the familiar essay, and the formation of
private libraries as personal sites of collection and
memory. Edited by Ina Ferris, with essays by
H. J.
Jackson, Ina Ferris and
Deidre
Lynch.

Looks at the influence of
Romanticism on poets writing today, presenting three
divergent analyses of five contemporary poets.
Includes contributions from both Romanticists and
critics of modern (and postmodern) poetry. Edited
by Lisa M.
Steinman, with essays by Charles Altieri,
Robert
Kaufman, and Ellen Keck
Stauder.

An electronic version of an
interview with Morris Eaves,
Robert Essick,
and Joseph
Viscomi, editors of The Blake Archive,
on the 10th anniversary of its founding. With topics
of conversation running the gamut from the winsome
(Blake kitsch) to the peculiar (hypothetical
extensions of Blake's canon). Edited by
Kari
Kraus.

An interview with noted
Romanticist Jerome Christensen, presented in the form
of a multi-linked site organized around a
constellation of "common topics" found in
Christensen's work. Offers a revised transcript,
and audio files. Edited by Steven
Newman.